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A Note on the British Species of Cucumarians, Involving the Erection of Two New Nominal Genera

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

F. W. E. Rowe
F. W. E. Rowe
Affiliation:
Biological Laboratories, The Polytechnic, Regent Street, London, W. 1
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While preparing a report on Echinodermata from the Stilly Isles, based on collections made by the University of London Sub-Aqua Club but including also earlier records by various authors (F. W. E. Rowe, J. nat. Hist., in the Press), it became apparent that the species generally known as Cucumaria saxicola Brady & Robertson and C. normani Pace, from Mortensen's classic handbook (1927), have not been satisfactorily reassigned generically since the break-up of Cucumaria sensu extenso and need new generic names in conformity with current views on generic distinctions in the Dendrochirotida.

Mortensen (1927), in his survey of the Echinoderms of the British Isles, includes seven species in the genus Cucumaria: C. frondosa (Gunnerus); C. elongata Düben & Koren; C. hyndmanni Thompson; C. saxicola Brady & Robertson; C. normani Pace;C. lactea (Forbes) and C. planci (Brandt), this last species being wrongly credited to von Marenzeller.

C. frondosa is a plump to barrel-shaped animal with ten large, bushy tentacles, podia, at least in the older specimens, not restricted to the ambulacral areas, a calcareous ring with no posterior bifurcations on the radial plates or any fusion of the ventralmost radial and adjacent interradial plates and spicules of the body wall comprising thin, multilocular, smooth or slightly thorny plates, these being more or less restricted to the posterior region and to the podia in older animals. It has been designated type-species of the genus by Panning (1949), thus delimiting Cucumaria sensu stricto. The other species included by Mortensen cannot be treated as being congeneric with frondosa by virtue of their elongate body, ten relatively small tentacles of which the ventralmost two are smaller than the remaining eight, podia restricted to the ambulacral areas, calcareous ring showing a tendency, in some forms, to develop posterior bifurcations on the radial plates and fusion of the ventral-most radial and adjacent interradial plates and the differing form and combinations of spicules of the body wall.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 50 , Issue 3 , August 1970 , pp. 683 - 687
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1970

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